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Xavier's Turnaround Season Continues With BIG EAST Quarterfinal Victory


Special to BIGEAST.com

It wasn’t all that long ago when the Xavier Musketeers’ season looked to be dead in the water. They had just lost their sixth straight game, had dropped to 3-8 in the conference and, to paraphrase Rick Pitino from his days with the then-struggling Celtics, Trevon Bluiett and J.P. Macura were not going to come walking through that locker room door.

What ended the Musketeers’ worst slide of the season was an overtime win in the Cintas Center over Creighton on Feb. 13 and it helped jumpstart Xavier into a 6-1 finish to the regular season.